Global Standards Mapping Initiative (GSMI)

The most comprehensive effort to map and analyze the blockchain and digital assets ecosystem. It provides resources and recommendations for the blockchain and digital assets community to navigate the complexities of the global landscape across key themes.

Blockchain and Digital Assets Landscape

The blockchain and digital assets landscape is made up of products, services, platforms, and infrastructure that together support a wide range of developments and applications.

GSMI offers a continually updated global mapping of key stakeholders and their roles in the blockchain and digital assets ecosystem, with their interactions summarized in the diagram below. GSMI 6.0 provides access to the full list of 2,000+ stakeholders and welcomes further suggestions from the community.

Use cases and infrastructure developments are continuing to unfold across all industry verticals, bringing a new generation of decentralized business models that rely heavily on communities of users and participants in order to make decisions and scale. The industry is continuing to mature and institutionalize into a multi-trillion dollar sector, with many more developments underway and innovations to come.